Dawn Solaris

“Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius. It goes both ways.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“We turn pain into a story, because then it has a purpose. Then, we reason, there was a point to it all along. But sometimes pain is just pain, and there’s nothing particularly noble about clinging to it.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“And my heart swells at the silly, simple human fact that when we stumble upon something beautiful, our first instinct is to show it to the people we love.

It’s what we do with pretty seashells on a beach, a radiant sunset, a rare bird flitting through the trees, a heard of wild horses grazing in the countryside.

“Look,” we say, saving these little pieces of beauty for each other, “Do you see it too? Isn’t the world such a strange, lovely, breathtaking place?”
― Ann Liang, Never Thought I'd End Up Here

“He even treated himself to a Batman hoodie and a T-shirt that said IT’S ME. HI. I’M THE PROBLEM, IT’S ME.—which felt very fitting. According to his shopper, it was a lyric from a song he needed to listen to. She’d actually gasped when he’d asked, “What’s a Swiftie?”
― Shannon Messenger, Unraveled Book 9.5